Anthony Egan TREVOR HUDDLESTON: A LIFE by Robin Denniston (Macmillan) For a figure of such importance to the anti-apartheid struggle, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston has been largely overlooked as a subject for biography. His life has largely been told through his own writings – which combine Anglo-Catholic theology, militant anti-racism and an anecdotal style – or […]

SOUTH Africa’s Greg Emslie narrowly lost to Australian Taj Burrow in round three of the Quiksilver Pro in Cloudbreak, Tavarua Island, Fiji on Wednesday. The 22-year-old East Londoner progressed to round four of the competition behind Burrow, who is earmarked as a potential future surfing world champion. Emslie’s loss will give him an event placing […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby We should be used to it by now, but it doesn’t make it any easier: how is it possible to pick a winner in a competition where the best players are only sporadically available? The Lions won the Vodacom Cup because, what with bottomless bank accounts and one thing and another, they […]

Peter Dickson Four trees planted by Govan Mbeki decades ago – before the long years on Robben Island – cast their welcome shade over the rundown house and shop in the dust bowl of Kwa- Sofutha, outside the decaying Transkei town of Idutywa. Since the windmill gave up the ghost in the 1980s and the […]

David Shapshak You can’t help feeling as if someone is on the verge of saying: “Houston, we have a problem.” The main auditorium of the Pretoria showground has been commandeered by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and transformed into a hi-tech election nerve centre, complete with the buzz akin to Nasa-like rocket launches. More accustomed […]

THURSDAY, 6.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA are in a spot of bother at tea on the first day of the first Test at Edgbaston with Mike Atherton and Mark Butcher forging an unbeaten opening partnership of 151 to place England in a very healthy position on Thursday. The English batsmen kept cool heads after they had been […]

Philippa Garson Class Struggle There’s nothing like an avalanche of blunt facts to send politicians and theorists scuttling back to the drawing board – at least one hopes so. When confronted with the disturbing, grainy footage of real life, rather than the crisply sanitised version stamped on to the pages of our many White Papers […]

Donna Block Share World For months now my husband, the spending phenomenon, has been nagging me to get a real job and get back into my pre-journalistic profession – stock-broking. And to tell you the truth I’ve been seriously thinking about it. After working on Wall Street for most of my adult life and watching […]

Wally Mbhele makes very bold statements about the disunity of the African National Congress in the Free State (“Fresh splits in the Free State ANC”, May 21 to 27). And the article has done a disservice to the understanding of the nature of Free State politics. Essentially, Mbhele sees red in the ANC where it […]

Thrillers PROVOCATION by Charlotte Grimshaw (Abacus) Astute businessman Carlos Lehmann takes his capital gains and his family and settles in Seabrooke, a small New Zealand bush community where everyone is so interrelated one thinks immediately of Deliverance. The good folk of Seabrooke, inspired by prejudice (Lehmann is half-Maori, half-white) and greed (he’s bought a large […]